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Title
Her Brilliant Career
Type
Text
Monograph
Contribution
Cooke, Rachel (Journalist) (Author)
Subject
Gray, Patience
Spain, Nancy, 1917-1964
Laurie, Joan Werner (LCSH)
Van Damm, Sheila (LCSH)
Smithson, Alison, 1928-1993
Fish, Margery
Box, Muriel, 1905-1991
Box, Betty E. (Betty Evelyn), 1915-1999
Hawkes, Jacquetta, 1910-1996
Heilbron, Rose, 1914-2005
Women--History--20th century (LCSH)
Nineteen fifties (LCSH)
Language
English
Illustrative Content
Illustrations
Classification
LCC: HQ1154 .C6527 2013b
DDC: 305.409045 full
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Supplementary Content
bibliography
index
Content
text
Note
Language: Text in English.
Summary
Journalist Rachel Cooke goes back in time to offer an entertaining and iconoclastic look at ten women in the 1950s--pioneers whose professional careers and complicated private lives helped to create the opportunities available to today's women. These intrepid and ambitious individuals--among them a film director, a cook, an architect, an editor, an archaeologist, and a race car driver--left the house, discovered the bliss of work, and ushered in the era of the working woman. Daring and independent, these remarkable unsung heroines--whose obscurity makes their accomplishments all the more astonishing and relevant--loved passionately, challenged men's control, made their own mistakes, and took life on their own terms, breaking new ground and offering inspiration. Their individual portraits form a landscape of 1950s culture, and of women's unique--and rapidly evolving--role. Before there could be a Danica Patrick, there had to be a Sheila van Damm; before there was Barbara Walters, there was Nancy Spain; before Kathryn Bigelow came Muriel Box. The pioneers of Her Brilliant Career forever changed the fabric of culture, society, and the workforce. This is the Fifties retold: vivid, surprising and, most of all, modern.--From publisher description.
Table Of Contents
In the kitchen with Patience Gray
The show must go on : three trouser-wearing characters : Nancy Spain, writer and personality; Joan Werner Laurie, magazine editor; Sheila van Damm, rally-car driver and theatre manager
A monumental ambition : Alison Smithson, architect
In the garden with Margery Fish
The Brontës of Shepherd's Bush : Muriel Box, director, and Betty Box, producer
Digging for victory : Jacquetta Hawkes, archaeologist
All rise : Rose Heilbron, QC
Fashion in the fifties
Some good and richly subversive novels by women, 1950-60.
Authorized Access Point
Cooke, Rachel (Journalist) Her Brilliant Career
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Change Date: 2016-06-03T08:11:40
Creation Date: 2015-05-23
Description Language: English
Description Modifier: United States, Library of Congress
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